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What is a Graduate Certificate of Applied Management

A Graduate Certificate of Applied Management will strengthen your leadership and management capability through workplace-based learning. Combining theory and practical application, the course helps you develop advanced management skills while addressing real organisational challenges in your current career.

This qualification offers a flexible pathway for you to enhance your effectiveness, contribute to organisational outcomes and progress your professional development. Develop high-level analytical, communication, and decision-making skills aligned with contemporary management practice, and apply your learning directly to your workplace context. The course includes two core subjects and one specialism subject, culminating in an advanced business practice project that allows you to address a complex workplace challenge. Supported by academic supervision and flexible delivery options, you will gain practical experience, strengthen your management capability and graduate with a recognised postgraduate qualification that can support further study and career progression.

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Learning outcomes

To meet the learning outcomes of the Graduate Certificate of Applied Management

Identify and evaluate organisational challenges, business opportunities and service improvement initiatives within your workplace.
Design and implement workplace-based projects that deliver meaningful outcomes for teams, stakeholders and organisations.
Apply reflective practice and work-based learning methods to strengthen professional capability and support ongoing development.
Analyse stakeholder perspectives and business needs to inform decision-making and project outcomes.
Develop and present evidence-based project proposals, recommendations and solutions to complex workplace challenges.
Communicate ideas, insights and project outcomes effectively to a range of audiences.

Study mode

Online, Blended

Campus locations

Online, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide

Student

Domestic

Course duration

0.7 years full-time, part-time options available

Start date

15 Feb 2027

This is an AQF Level 8 course delivered by Torrens University Australia Ltd.

95% of international graduates are employed full time within 12 months

Gain in-demand skills and graduate with qualifications respected worldwide.
(Kantar-validated Career Progress Survey 2024)

Learn from specialists in their field

Our academics understand where the industry is heading and will guide you on your learning journey.

Become an industry leader

Build the knowledge and practical skills required to manage high-performing teams.

Career opportunities

The Graduate Certificate of Applied Management is designed to equip you with the leadership and management knowledge and practical skills needed to succeed in today's dynamic workplaces. Through workplace-based learning, the course enables you to apply contemporary management theory to real organisational challenges while developing capabilities in leadership, decision-making, and organisational improvement. Graduates are well positioned to advance into leadership and management roles across a broad range of industries, including the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. Progression to doctoral studies is required if you wish to pursue an academic career.

Potential career paths

Sales Manager
Average salary: $80,000 - $170,000
Senior Consultant
Average salary: $90,000 - $150,000
Product Development Manager
Average salary: $115,836 - $170,330
Project Manager
Average salary: $107,038 - $164,883

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Subjects and units

This course comprises 2 core and 1 specialisation, each subject requiring 10 hours of study per week (made up of classes and self-directed study). Assessments may include activity-based assignments or online quizzes. There are no formal exams.

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Requirements

Complete the 2 core subjects listed below. Additionally, you’re required to select 1 specialism from the specialism tab.

Core subjects

Workplace Learning and Research | MGT510

Developing a learning mindset and the skills of how to learn are critical to your success as a senior industry professional. This subject assists you to develop the knowledge and skills to learn effectively in the workplace as a senior professional. You will explore and challenge assumptions about how you learn best and what constitutes effective learning. The subject will guide you on how to learn from- and in-action, and to reflect on your experience of events, situations or actions so as to make sense of them in a structured manner. You will also learn about how to research, scope, and secure appropriate resources to undertake a successful workplace project and deepen your reflective practice.
Advanced Business Practice Project | MGT511

Having developed an agreed project brief, you are now ready to complete the project, which is constituted as a formal three-way learning agreement between the university, the organisation, and you, the learner. This subject provides you with the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills gained in MGT510 Workplace Learning & Research with the support and guidance of your organisational sponsor and academic adviser to a real work-based challenge. The project will be within your own role or scope and be of a level of complexity that is equal to, or more than your level of responsibility. It will involve a minimum work commitment of 200 hours not including academic research and assessment work. Projects can be undertaken in groups subject to the above conditions. However, each learner will submit their own individual work.

Requirements

Specialisms available to students may be chosen from the specialism bank below. Choose 1 subject from the below:

Specialisation subjects

Management, People and Teams | PMGTHD600

This subject introduces you to how organisational behaviour, politics, dynamics and environments impact on the role and legitimacy of management. Constraints that managers and emerging leaders face in developing strategies to leverage advantages and overcome barriers in organisations and projects will be explored. You will identify, analyse and make effective decisions to resolve people-related issues, lead and manage change, facilitate employee development, performance and sustain effective teams in complex and diverse global operating environments.
Dynamic Leadership | PMGTHD601

In this subject you will build upon your current self-understanding to develop your strategic and ethical leadership capability. You will explore your key formative experiences and self-image using the techniques of reflective research, psychometric assessment and support from a mentoring partner. Develop your emotional competency to be authentic, confident and resilient in your leadership practices. Built on a foundation of self-reflection, topics covered include scenario thinking, influencing and motivating others, developing cultural sensitivity, and becoming resilient and tolerant of ambiguity. At the conclusion of the subject you will bring together the knowledge and skills you have acquired through the preparation of a personal leadership development plan.
Business Decision Analytics | PMGTHD602

Today's decisions have to be made quickly, individually and in groups, with what often appears to be ambiguous or too much data. How does one select, observe and distil the most pertinent data sets to make decisions that will positively impact tomorrow's firms and communities? This subject engages students in the nuances of data collection, how to filter data and how to use it most effectively in decision-making. The subject develops the student's qualitative and quantitative research skills, and digital literacy.
Systems Thinking | PMGTHD603

This subject builds on systems theory and introduces you to a holistic view of the organisation, and the broader ecosystem it operates in. Apply Systems Thinking to optimise operations, improve competitive advantage, and address change. You will use several Systems Thinking tools to diagnose and propose innovative solutions to contemporary business issues.
Strategic Management | PMGTHD604

This subject explores sustainable approaches to managing the symbiotic relationship between organisations and their environments. Organisations are increasingly facing disruption and the basis for delivering products and services is rapidly changing. Sustaining performance requires careful management of business processes, fostering corporate competencies, and aligning the firm to its internal and external environment. The student will learn and then practice strategising through a number of theories and practical settings.
Marketing | PMKTHD600

21st Century professionals who aspire to hold a leadership position must have a clear understanding and appreciation of the importance of marketing. This subject is designed to develop a comprehensive understanding of marketing theories and the strategic application of marketing concepts in various contexts, including profit and not-for- profit organisations, and government. You will be equipped with the ability to formulate marketing strategy and the use of strategic marketing mix elements in developing and maintaining a market orientation. Assess organisational performance in relation to ethical and socially acceptable business practices and use strategic marketing to gain a competitive advantage.
Financial Management | PFINHD600

This subject is focused on how company managers/leaders make decisions relating to obtaining finance, making investments, and managing working capital. You will interpret and apply information available from the company’s financial records to inform strategy. This subject will equip you with knowledge and skills that will aid financial decision making. You will learn how to apply tools such as financial statement analysis, capital budgeting, and cost and budget management techniques.
Principles of Project Management | PPROHD600

This course provides students with a grounding in the principles of project management, its methods and contemporary standards associated with managing diverse projects. Students in this course are introduced to the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to manage projects (including IT projects) successfully throughout a project life cycle, and to the language used by practitioners in conjunction with the terminology recognised by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Students explore the project management knowledge areas and process groups of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) guide. Students also examine the ways these two dimensions of project management interact in initiating (scoping), planning, executing (launching), monitoring and controlling, and closing a project. The subject provides students with opportunities to also examine the challenges of project management and the professional traits that project managers are associated with.
Agile Project Management | PPROHD608

Progressing from traditional project management frameworks this subject focuses on Agile project management, Agile project management methodology, the principles of Agile, and Agile techniques. This subject will be based on a foundation of the 4 core values and 12 guiding principles of Agile as laid out by the agile manifesto. Students will develop an understanding of Agile concepts, tools and techniques: Scrum and Kanban, Roadmap planning, Program increments, Sprints and daily scrums and the Agile roles within teams. Some of the leading Agile frameworks will be discussed so that students have an understanding of some of the different philosophies, which support the Agile continuous delivery pipeline. Points of origin in Lean practice and the relationship between Agile and DevOps will also be covered to help students orient themselves in the broader emerging landscape of projects and software development landscape.
Employer Based Project | PMGTHD606

The Employer Based Project subject is a 4-unit postgraduate subject designed to facilitate work-integrated learning in the student’s current employment to be included in the volume of learning for the student’s currently enrolled program. Like any other subject, there is an expectation that the student will engage in 120 hours of active learning above and beyond their normal employment duties. This subject requires the student to undertake and document an original and new project that will be sponsored by and benefit the employer as well as demonstrably bridge the theoretical–praxis gap in the student’s knowledge. If approved, the student will be allocated an academic supervisor who will support the student in bridging knowledge and practice for the duration of the unit.

Study pathways

Torrens University offers undergraduate and postgraduate students with flexible entry options and study pathways. Whether you prefer a full program or a modular approach, we can tailor your studies to your needs. Start your journey with an undergraduate diploma or bachelor degree, or grow your career with a postgraduate qualification.

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Fees

Please speak with your employer about course fees.

Admission criteria

Before you begin your application to study as a domestic student, check that you meet at least one of the requirements listed below.

A completed qualification at AQF Level 7 (Bachelor degree) or above in a related field, or equivalent;

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At least five years of professional or managerial work experience. Applications may be assessed on a case-by-case basis;

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Relevant work or life experience where you are nominated by your employer. Applicants will complete a Torrens Readiness Assessment and eligibility will be reviewed jointly by Torrens University Australia and the organisational program sponsor;

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Successful completion of an approved workplace learning program mapped to the Graduate Certificate of Applied Management under a current block credit arrangement. Eligible applicants may enter the capstone unit to complete the qualification, subject to employer confirmation and Torrens University verification.

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